Laurence Broers is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and an associate fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House. He has a decade’s experience as a practitioner of peacebuilding and human rights advocacy in the South Caucasus, and his research interests include regime politics, intractable conflicts and peacebuilding in the South Caucasus, the politics of unrecognised states, and the critical geopolitics of post-Soviet space.

He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of The Unrecognised Politics of De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Space (Caucasus Institute, 2015) and Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia (Routledge, 2018). He is also co-founder and chief editor of the triannual journal Caucasus Survey.